The Acousmographe was developed in Paris by researchers of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) and was designed for a graphical representation of electronic music.Now, instead, I would advise some resources available free online. First, start with the official web site.
Then let’s move to a pdf tutorial entitled Tutoriel d’utilisation de l’acousmographe. But this is French!
Well, let’s try another. A very brief tutorial available via the INA official site. But, even this is a French tutorial!
I don’t wanna discourage anyone, but the next tutorial is for italian people! 72 pages articulated in three sections: Introduction, Tutorial (for the most important features) and References (which explains all the functions of the Acousmographe).
The last document is available also in French.
A video that demonstrates the functionality of the Acosumographe with a work by Edgard Varese, Deserts (the YT channel collects all the Acousmographe frames of this beautiful work):
We close with Sound and musical representation, a technical paper by Yann Geslin and Adrien Lefevre, now in English! : )
If you want inform us of new resources, or if you have seen a broken link, please leave a comment or contact us privately, as you like! Thanks!
Andreas Hedman
says:There is now a new “Aural Sonology” plug-in for the Acousmographe. It can be downloaded from the GRM official web site.
The tutorial is in English!
I wrote it (well, in it I do, of course, refer to the manual in French for more info…).
alex.dinunzio
says:Thank you very much for your comment, Andreas! The linked page: http://www.inagrm.com/aural-sonology-plugin-0